About the series:
“Digital Futures Conversations” is an event series, each event consisting of a 30-minute talk by a featured guest followed by a 30-minute conversation facilitated by a Digital Futures faculty member. Digital Futures is a set of undergraduate and graduate programs at OCAD University in Toronto that focus on creative and critical approaches to existing and emerging technologies. OCAD University is one of Canada’s largest art and design schools, committed to the principles of decolonization, diversity and equity, and sustainability.
About this event:
Tess Takahashi is a Toronto-based scholar, writer, and programmer who focuses on the politics of experimental moving image arts. She is currently working on two books, On Magnitude, which considers artists' work in relation to questions of digital scale, and Impure Film (1968-2008), which connects the fields of documentary and art via medium specificity. She is a member of the editorial collective for Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media. Takahashi's writing has been published there as well as in Cinema Journal, the Millennium Film Journal, Animation, MIRAGE, and Cinema Scope, among others.